Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-28

nor were ssseir lives tire atened, but thei
own guilty consciences had caused then
to leave the country for the country
good. He submitted that the Senate
should not adopt the resolution because
to do SO would be to allow the fair name
of one OF the states of the Union to be as
persed without testimony. 1t would be
sn injustice which should not be tolerated
] in the Senste.
Senator Hoar defended and advocated
the resolution. The three petitioners, he
said, re presented they were men of prop
erty, of wealth, that they had been earn
ing their living in peaceful, lawful and
honorable ways and that they had
been driven out from their homes
on American soil. They We're
residents OF that county, nobody denied
that; they were now refugees and exiles,
nobody denied that. As to the statement
| that c,lored men had killed peaceful and
respectable white Democrat, who had
given no offense, that was not q very
probable statement. Such things did not
often occur in Texas or elsewhere. The
fact was that the man who was killed was
disguised IS a kukluX.
Senator Coke denied that statement
and said there was not word of truth in
il.
Senator Hoar reasserted his statement
and referred to the fact that Senators had
spoken the other day of war against for
eign power because of the seizure of some
fishing vessels, and he asked whether the
right of an American citizen was less "a
cred IN the eye of the American Congress
when it happened to be violated On
American soil.
Senator Edmunds advocated the reso-
luton.
Senator Eustis, member of the COM
mittee, opposed it as a waving of the
bloody shirt a little in advance of the
usual season. 1t was simply a PROPOSE
lion to make political capital.
Senator Hawley advocated the resolu-
tlon. He did not regard the question es
one which the Senate was at liberty to |
consider or to set aside as it chose. The |
power to make the proposed investiga- |
ton was not only unquestiOned but ire
sistible.
Senator Evarts, q member of the COM |
mittee, sustained the resolution and ar
gued that there could be no better time |
than the present for making the investi- !
cation. II was OF great Importance to |
the country, to the state of Texas and to
the southern people that now, when there
was an opportunity, to prove under the
authority of the Senate that this was a
mere "wavng of the bloody shirt" it
should do so.
Senator salisbury offered an amend
ment requiring the investigation To be
in Washington county, Tex.
Senator Hoar opposed the amendment.
The question should be left to the dis
erection and judgment of the committee.
The amendment was rejected; yeas %,
nays 80.
Senator Call opposed the resolution as
an attack on the very life of the govern
ment and American Institutions. 1t was
4 declaration that the Senate of the
United States was separated widely from
the sympathies of the people; believed
that people in different states and com
could not be trusted.
A vote was then taken and the resolu-
ton was adopted; yess 81, nays 26.
The Senate then resumed consideration
Of the bill to establish agricultural eX
pertinent stations in connection with the
agricultural colleges established under
act of July %, 1882. After a long dis
,ussion and the off ring of and voting on
4 large number of amendments. Senator
tIawley offered a substitute for the bill,
and on his motion the bill and substitute
were ordered printed and the matter
went over till tomorrow.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-The Speaker
aid before the House a letter from the
Secretary of the Treasury submitting es
.imates Of the Secretary Of the Interior on
he appropriation to meet the eXpendi-
.ures required for the Mex can pension
dill. Referred. The Secretary of the In
.erior estimates that 81, 5,l0t viii be
'equred for the first yearly payment of
pensions. He asks for an appropriation
ii S257 900 for sn increased clerical force.
The Senate fisheries bill having been
aid before the House, on motion of Mr..
Belmont of New York it was referred to
he committee on foreign affairs and leave
vas granted that committee to report at
my time. The granting of leave to report
IT any time required unanimous consent
)ut there was apparently no disposition
On the part of any member to
make objection. AS it has
leen frequently held that the right to re-
BORT at any time carries with It the right
If immediate consideration, the bill
will have right of way in the House a.
ioon as it has been passed upon by the